![DU PINET, ANTOINE. Plantz, Pourtraitz et Descriptions de plusieurs villes et forteresses tant de l'Europe, Asie, & Afrique, que des Indes, et terres neuues. Lyon: J. d'Ogerolles, 15 April 1564. Folio, new half calf; title slightly soiled and with two small slits in blank gutter margin, very slight worming to extreme lower blank inner gutters early in the volume, blank fore-edge of n2 ragged, very slightly browned. FIRST EDITION, 22 double-page woodcut maps or town views, 16 smaller maps or town views, 24 woodcut illustrations including one double-page [of the Colosseum] and two portraits (one after Holbein's Erasmus) all after a variety of celebrated artists (Bernard Salomon and others), some copied from Balthazar Arnoullet and others from Sebastian Muenster. Harvard/Mortimer French 191.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1998/NYE/1998_NYE_08105_0150_000(105152).jpg?w=1)
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DU PINET, ANTOINE. Plantz, Pourtraitz et Descriptions de plusieurs villes et forteresses tant de l'Europe, Asie, & Afrique, que des Indes, et terres neuues. Lyon: J. d'Ogerolles, 15 April 1564. Folio, new half calf; title slightly soiled and with two small slits in blank gutter margin, very slight worming to extreme lower blank inner gutters early in the volume, blank fore-edge of n2 ragged, very slightly browned. FIRST EDITION, 22 double-page woodcut maps or town views, 16 smaller maps or town views, 24 woodcut illustrations including one double-page [of the Colosseum] and two portraits (one after Holbein's Erasmus) all after a variety of celebrated artists (Bernard Salomon and others), some copied from Balthazar Arnoullet and others from Sebastian Muenster. Harvard/Mortimer French 191.